Card for Paige

Hi All! I hope everyone had a good day back yesterday. Back... to school... to work... to job hunting.

I wanted to share my card that I've sent to Paige as part of the card shower I was telling you about yesterday. Please send a girl who needs all the smiles she can get a card. It's easy. Just visit my post below for the links, stories, and Sunshine & Giggles pre-order.


I created this card for my challenge sketch on Tuesday Morning Sketches, but it was funny that I started making this card and was just about done when I decided to take a computer break to see what my favorite blogs had to show me and I saw that The Pink Elephant had a color challenge going on with colors I'd already chosen which is red, yellow, black and white. I had almost completed this card with a blue ribbon, I changed it to black and voila! I had a card to enter into The Pink Elephant's challenge.

I hope you enjoy my card, send Paige a smile and join me over at Tuesday Morning Sketches. Have a wonderful day!

Sunshine & Giggles Pre-Sale to help Paige

Hi all,

Today's regularly scheduled post has been preempted by this special message. Fellow blogger Erin is reaching out to everyone who will take a moment to send a card to a 13 year old girl that needs your words of encouragement. Paige was seriously injured in a recent boating accident which resulted in part of her arm being amputated. Doctors are working very hard to save the rest of it. You can read all about Paige's story here and how you can help.

Many wonderful stamp companies have donated stamps to Erin's blog candy give-away but Sunshine & Giggles is running a pre-sale promotion. Any stamps from the new winter line sold between September 7th and October 31st, $2 will be donated to help this family with the medical expenses that await them. These stamps are not yet available so this is a pre-order and are expected to ship on October 1st.

Here's a sneak peek on what's coming in the new line. Click here to see all the new stamps that will be available soon at Sunshine & Giggles. Janice has a new illustrator and she's simply fabulous!!

I hope you'll help out. My card went in today's mail, I hope you can do the same.

MyGrafico Challenge Monday

Good Morning - Happy Labor Day!! I hope you're enjoying your nice long weekend.

Did you have fun last week with the week of prizes at MyGrafico? I know Martha and the design team had a blast with the blog hop! We are back to our weekly challenges and we have 2 new design team members!

So this week's challenge is Back to School. We used an adorable stamp set that can be found here. When I made this card my kids exclaimed "Madeline!!" and that is what she reminds me of, too.


I used a black base for my card. My sister is a 2nd grade teacher so she can get all these really neat school items that are great for cards, she sent me these self-adhesive library pockets and cards. That provided a cool embellishment and sentiment for my card. I tried to write the sentiment like Kristina Werner does - she does a way better job than I did! The alphabet background paper is actually another digi that I got from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. This card will be going to another special little girl I know that started Kindergarten.

Be sure to visit the MyGrafico Challenge blog for all the details of the challenge. Then sit back and relax while you visit the other design team member's blogs to see what adorable projects they have for you. I've seen some and you're in for a treat! As always, they are linked in my sidebar.

As for Sunshine Mondays, Janice and the design team are taking a little break while we gear up for the new release that's coming soon. Stay tuned for that!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Back to School

Good Morning,

I think most kids are back in the full swing of school, but I know a special little girl that is heading off to kindergarten very soon. I made this card to participate in some challenges but with her in mind.


The challenges that I did are:

1) The Digi Shack has a recipe challenge going on 1 ribbon, 2 decorative papers and 3 brads. The black ribbon with white polka dots is from a recent trip to the ribbon outlet. The decorative papers are from a matstack I just got at AC Moore for 40% off - DCVW Citrus matstack. The 3 little apples are brads that I made. I couldn't find a digi from the TDS collection for the Back to School theme, so I used an image by one of their Senior Design Team members. Hope that's OK.

Edit: I can't believe I forgot to credit the image - it's from the Dream Big series, called Apple. You can find her here and all the other adorable images from Inktegrity. Joni, next time I goof like this, smack me!

2) Cute Card Thursday's challenge is Back to School.

3) Truly Scrumptious gave us this truly awesome sketch to play with.

A little on how I did it: I colored the image with prismacolor pencils and OMS. The stamped the little apples using an image from PTI's Limitless Labels set, then used it to make my brad. I covered the big apple and the little apples with Diamond Glaze to give them shine. The sentiment is computer generated and let me give you a tip on how to print directly onto your decorative paper.

In your word program type out your sentiment in a text box and then visualize where you want that to be printed on your paper. Move your text box to that spot. You may have to play with this a bit to get it according to your liking. Print it out on a piece of plain paper. Once you're happy with where you want it, adhere your [my case 4x6] paper to the piece of plain paper with repositional adhesive (I used Dotto) over the print you made on the plain paper. Make sure you adhere well so that it doesn't shift. Place back into your printer and print again. Pull your dp off of the plain paper and voila! you have a digi stamp placed right onto your decorative paper just as if you used a rubber stamp and ink.

Hope you enjoy the card. And today's the last day to get in on the give-aways at MyGrafico Challenge blog, so don't miss out and then we'll be back on Monday with another challenge! It's so good to be back.

Thursdays with Lindsay

Good Morning!

Welcome to another edition of Thursdays with Lindsay - I do so enjoy this day! Every time I write that phrase it makes me think Breakfast at Tiffany's. I don't even think I've seen that whole movie. Anyway, it also means there's a free digi to find! Happy blog-hunting. And don't forget the special, spend $5, get a digi-stamp for free.

I am participating in Digital Tuesday's challenge. The challenge this week is to use pearls and lace. This card so did not not start out the way it ended, but I am happy with the results and I can't even tell you what I started to do. I love the way cards seem to evolve themselves.

First I used the Elegant Card Kit (b/w) by printing it out on pink card stock. There are two Elegant Card Kits available, one that is black and white and the other is black and ivory. Why I like these options is because the black and white version allows you to be versatile in card stock color choices, but the black and ivory version takes all the thinking out for you just in case you're in a hurry and don't want to think about color choices.

I then printed the new Cosmos digi-stamp and colored it with a combination of Koh-i-noor and Prismacolor pencils and OMS. Then cut into an oval shape. The kit comes with 3 backgrounds, so I used the scroll one and then under the flower image I cut a bit larger oval from the filigree background image and then finally matted on black card stock.

I finished the front of the card by adding bits of lace flower trim to the oval focal image and pearls to the swirls on the background image.

On the inside of the card, I printed a Scripture verse (Ecc 3:11) that I originally intended to go on the front, it didn't work out that way. So I cut the card stock to fit the verse to the inside of the card and finished it off with strips of the filigree background and a bit of the lace trim.

I hope you like my card. Don't forget to visit Lindsay and the rest of the design team (linked in the sidebar), leave them some love and find the free-digi! Thanks for stopping by.



Be sure to check out the MyGrafico Challenge blog for another great give-away today!

Feeling Cozy

Hi all! I have a late post because I was waiting to participate in a Wednesday challenge. I did just one today - Color Throwdown. I love the colors they throw at you to use each week! The challenge this week is to used Always Artichoke, Regal Rose and Chocolate Chip. Such rich colors.


I dusted off my much neglected Guidelines stamp set from Papertrey Ink. I used the little flower from another Papertrey Ink set, Limitless Labels. These two sets created by background and then cut the scallop out with my nesties die, added the ribbon and then adhered to a chocolate chip base. I used the teapot and sentiment from Unity June KOM. Really super simple card - I can't take credit for it, I saw this on a You Tube video, here. I created the sentiment mounting with a Martha Stewart border punch and then to tie in the little holes from the border punch, I did a bit of paper piercing in the scallop window.

I hope you enjoy my card. Thanks for stopping by.



Oh, a word about MyGrafico Challenge blog - there's another great give-away, just make a "Sweet" card featuring candy to enter to win a super cute Back to School digi-stamp set.

Chilly Tuesday

Good Morning! It's actually quite crisp outside. I love early fall mornings with the slight chill in the air and the warmth of the afternoon.

First let's talk about MyGrafico! The winner of yesterday's blog hop single image is...

Post #16 - Julie!!

Julie, please email me at tuesdaymorningsketches@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Today's give-away at the MyGrafico Challenge blog is the Superhero set. Become a Follower and you're entered to win! Easy!

The card I have to share with you today is for Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge. I used Sassy Studio Designs image, which is part of their new release - she's called Back to School Brittany and she's so cute. I also used a sentiment from my friend Jen's digi-shop Say it with Stamps - it's a whole collection of school themed word art digi-stamps, perfect for cards and scrapbook pages. The decorative paper is digi-paper that I purchased from A Cherry on Top.



Alrighty, I'm off to throw some clothes on, get Levi out the door and then out for my morning walk. Enjoy your day... visit me over at Tuesday Morning Sketches... and thanks for stopping by.